Socializing Democratic Norms

1. Socialization and Democratization: a Tenuous but Intriguing Link
Trine Flockhart

Part I. Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations

2. The ‘International’ in Democratization: Norms and the Middle Ground
Jean Grugel

3. Complex Socialization and the Transfer of Democratic Norms
Trine Flockhart

Part II. Promoting Ideas through International Organizations

4. The UN, Democracy and Europe since 1945
Sally Morphet

5. NATO and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security Communities
Sonia Lucarelli

6. The EU: Promoting Liberal-Democracy through Membership Conditionality
Frank Schimmelfennig

7. The OSCE: the Somewhat Different Socializing Agency
Michael Merlingen, Rasa Ostrauskaitė

Part III. Receiving and Internalizing Ideas in Transforming Societies

8. The Czech Republic: from Socialist Past to Socialized Future
Petr Drulák, Lucie Königová

9. From Isolation to Integration: Internal and External Factors of Democratic Change in Slovakia
Marek Rybář

10. The Socialization of Democratic Norms in Russia: Is the Glass Half-empty or Half-full?
Mette Skak

11. Belarus: an Authoritarian Exception from the Model of Post-Communist Democratic Transition?
Clelia Rontoyanni, Elena Korosteleva

12. Turkey and the Eternal Question of Being, or Becoming, European
Bill Park

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Organization, International Relations, Political Science, Globalization